This article has been updated from a previous version to correct the year in which Lynx merged with Solexa.

Applied Biosystems late last month sued its former chief patent counsel and Solexa claiming that it, and not Solexa, owns several patents relating to sequencing-by-ligation, the technology used by its upcoming Agencourt next-generation sequencing system.

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